Chapter 32 Chapter Twenty-Eight

The bright moonlight sprinkled down from the high sky on the earth, and the earth was silvery white. Fortunately, it is the reunion moon on the 15th day, and the moonlight shines through the gaps in the dense branches and leaves, so that there is still a faint light in the dark forest that is enough to distinguish. Nurhachi's team arrived in the woods before it was completely dark. According to the agreement, he tied white cloth strips on the branches as a mark, and then quietly waited for his companions in the woods. their arrival. Not long after, Ha Sihu also arrived with his troops; shortly afterward, Chang Shu and Yang Shu's team also arrived.

However, as soon as Chang Shu and Yang Shu brothers arrived, they brought bad news: "Nomina will not come - he sent someone to find us, saying that Long Dun from your clan told his brother Nekada Well, Nikan Wailan not only has the backing of the Ming Dynasty, but also persuaded the Hada tribe to stand on his side, no matter what we can't fight; he decided to listen to Nekada's advice and not act with us!" Chang Shu Said the matter carefully. Yang Shu immediately added another sentence: "He also advised us not to come, saying that we would not die in vain!" Nurhachi gritted his teeth and said angrily, "It's Long Dun again..."

Chang Shu said: "It sounds like Long Dun and Nikan Wai Lan have come together!" Nurhachi snorted coldly: "Since they have me as a common enemy, of course they must unite and deal with me together!" Ha Sihu saw that he was unhappy, so he comforted him and said: "It's fine if Nomina doesn't come, with people like us, we can still defeat Tulun City! It's not short of his dozens of men!" Chang Shu also said: "After we take down Tulun City, we will go to his Saarhu City and let him know the consequences of breaking the alliance and breaking promises!"

After hearing these words, Nurhachi didn't answer immediately, but let himself fall into thinking. Then, he suddenly ordered Shuerhaqi: "Take down the white cloth strips from the tree!" Then, he said to Ha Sihu and others: "Go! Take the team to the other side of the woods!" Everyone didn't understand his sudden order, but they all did as he said; after all the troops had moved their positions, he said slowly to Ha Sihu and others: "Our battle The plan must be modified—for the time being, we will hold back and wait here for three days and three nights before we start!"

"Why is that?" Almost everyone present made a sound of surprise and looked at Nurhachi puzzled. Nurhaci explained to everyone: "Since Nomina has betrayed the alliance and broken his promise, we must prevent him from leaking our battle plan to Nikanwailan—if he really betrays us, then our situation will be very serious. From the dark place to the bright place, like the place where we gathered just now, it was originally a secret, but now it has been detected by the enemy. What if they send someone to attack us? Moreover, if Nikan Wailan has already learned about us Isn’t our plan of attack just right to defend against our plan? If we continue to attack the city according to the original plan, wouldn’t we suffer a great loss?”

Hearing what he said, everyone nodded and said yes; Ha Sihu asked: "What is our plan going to be?" Nurhaci replied: "The method of siege remains the same, but the time is delayed by three days!" As he said that, he explained the reason in detail to everyone: "The vigilance in people's hearts can easily fade with time—if Nikan Wailan heard that we were going to attack the city today, he would be on full alert. People in Luncheng will also be very nervous and guard carefully; but if we don’t go today, their vigilance will relax a little tomorrow. We still don’t go tomorrow, and we don’t go the day after tomorrow. They just relaxed, either because they thought we had retreated, or they didn’t believe Nomina’s words at all, thinking that he was bluffing; in short, their vigilance will be much worse than today, and it will be much easier for us to succeed! "

Hearing these words, everyone admired him so much that Yang Shu murmured, "You are so smart, it is absolutely right to recommend you to be Baylor..." Nurhachi said indifferently: "I learned this principle from the books of the Han people—I'm not born smart, I just try to learn other people's strengths whenever I have the opportunity!" Ha Sihu said: "It is more effective to learn the strengths of others than to be born smart!" After he finished speaking, Chang Shu thought of a new question: "The dry food brought by the brothers is not enough to last three days - what should we do? You can't go to war hungry!"

However, Nurhachi didn't take this issue seriously at all. He said slowly to everyone: "I will tell the brothers one by one later, please feel wronged for a while, and eat the dry food. If it is not enough, pick some Fruits to satisfy hunger, endure these three days, when everyone wins the battle and takes down the city of Tulun, there are a lot of delicious food and drink in the city, you can eat and drink as much as you want-even all the cattle and sheep in the city All the treasures will be distributed to everyone!" Chang Shu said: "I'm afraid everyone will be too hungry to fight!"

Nurhachi smiled and said: "'The emperor does not send hungry soldiers', that is the Han people's saying-I heard that Genghis Khan's army is always half-starved before they go out to fight. Let them eat as much as they can, drink as much as they want, and rob as much as they can of the things in that city! 'Win a battle, let go of robbing for three days', this is the secret of Genghis Khan's victorious victories. This time, we happened to Try this method and see if it works!" Ha Sihu listened and said with a smile: "This method will definitely work - fight with hunger, and you will eat when you win. Everyone will fight desperately to fill their stomachs!"

This method really worked—at dawn on the fourth day, under Nurhachi's order, a hundred warriors fought bravely to be the first... Nurhachi's siege strategy is to send a dozen or so highly skilled infantry to approach the city quietly, find a dead corner with weaker defenses, and lie in ambush outside the city; In ancient times, a few men with strong arms and accurate arrow skills were responsible for shooting down the defenders on the tower; Open the gate, and as soon as the door opened, the horse team responsible for the main attack immediately rushed straight into the city... Everything was as he had planned, and Eidu, who shot the first arrow, made a "swish", and the feathered arrow flew into the air, and it accurately shot through the chest of a Tulun city soldier who was patrolling on the tower. , his body immediately fell down straight, and before his companions had time to figure out what was going on, the feathered arrows of Nurhachi and An Feiyangu had already flown there, and one person fell down with one arrow; the tower immediately became chaotic , Some people yelled, some people yelled to hurry up and beat gongs and drums to inform the defenders in the city; however, the city gate was opened before the supporting defenders arrived, and the cavalry poured in like a tide.

Most of the residents of Tulum City are still asleep, and they don't even know that there is a war at the gate of the city. They didn't know until after dawn, when they were about to start a normal day's work and rest, that Tulum City had changed hands.The war ended quickly. In addition to Nurhachi's careful preparations in advance, correct strategy, and the heroic fighting of E Yidu and others, one of the main reasons was the pustules of the defenders of Tulun City-the defenders of Tulun City were almost Vulnerable, and it didn't take long before they all abandoned their weapons and surrendered. The victory came more smoothly than expected, but an indescribable sense of astonishment rose in Nurhachi's heart—the first battle in his life, which he dared not take lightly for many days, turned out to be so easy to achieve? However, when he took control of the situation in the whole city and wanted to hunt down Nikanwailan, he discovered that there was another side to the matter that he had never imagined. "The city lord has asked Uncle Ning Yuan for help a long time ago!" Several of the captives who surrendered were Nikan Wailan's cronies, and he quickly asked for a confession: "Uncle Ning Yuan has long agreed to support, but for some reason, the reinforcements always don't come; the city lord heard that you five The 15th day of the lunar month is coming to attack the city, and on the 14th day, Uncle Ning Yuan’s reinforcements are not available, so he has to flee elsewhere with his wife, children and treasure!" Nurhachi gritted his teeth angrily: "What a cunning thing!" As he spoke, he punched the table heavily, and a hole was punched out of the wooden table top; then he asked the captive, "Where did he escape to?" Seeing that he punched a hole in the wooden table, the prisoner was already terrified. How could he dare to hide anything? His two rows of teeth chattered and said: "Flee——flee to A——Ban— -went!" Nurhachi snorted coldly and said, "Ban Jia—hmph, unless he can fly all over the world, otherwise, even if he can escape to Beijing, I will still capture him and tear him to pieces!" Chang Shu said beside him, "It's all Nomina—if he hadn't leaked the news, Nikan Wailan wouldn't have run away!" Er Yidu said with high spirits: "We will take advantage of the victory and pursue, no matter whether he is a version city or Saerhu city, we will fight them all!" Nurhachi nodded and said, "Of course!" Just as he was talking, Pahai had already counted the spoils of this battle one by one with a few servants sent by various ministries, and came up to report - the battle went smoothly, so not many enemies were killed, and Nurhachi didn't plan to massacre the city either. , Therefore, there are a lot of people and prisoners, plus the people, livestock, and property of the whole city, the "harvest" is very rich. After carefully listening to the number of Pa posters, Nurhachi smiled happily and said, "Although we escaped from Nikanwailan, the brothers have not worked hard in vain!" As he said that, he divided the obtained people into three shares fairly, Jianzhou Zuowei, Zhanhe Village, and Jiamuhu Village each got a share; the property was distributed equally to each soldier, so that the soldiers were all happy They cheered, jumped and laughed and shouted: "We are loyal to Nurhachi Baylor..."